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What It’s Like To Work On An Offshore Oil Rig

Drillers

Working on an offshore oil rig or platform is a unique experience Note: In this article, we’ll use the word ‘rig’ and ‘platform’ almost interchangeably, but a rig does the drilling, and a platform does the pumping. Yet you have to be ready to start from the bottom.

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Welded Together

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

I never expected to be doing roustabout work and rentals, and now trucking, he said. Welding still accounts for about half of Shadows workload, with roustabout work at 30 percent and hydrotesting around 10 percent. I had no idea thats what it would be when we started. I was thinking it would be about six or seven welders.